When I talk about my trauma it feels like it’s about someone else, idk how to make it about me
Whenever I want to talk about a childhood experience it feels like it’s so distant,, so far away,, so unreal
Tom used to turn off his cigs on my skin, shoulders and chest mostly, the burns still sting to this day. He also crashed the car on purpose since I didnae stop talking or something, that’s why I’m afraid of being shotgun on leather seat cars. He hid his alcoholic breath behind mint mouthwash, that’s why I cannae stand the smell. He would beat me with his leather belt,, I don’t wanna b near leather in my life tbh. He used to drink diet Coke and even the colour of the can is so repulsive to me.
Certain things are more obvious like the fact that idk what a square root is cause he never let me enroll in school. Not like the fact that I just feminized myself out of spite and as a coping mechanism.
He used to chop or burn my hair off whenever it went past my ears,, I was never happy with that. Imagine being 8 and hating the mirror already, fucks sake. He never let me into religion and now I blame my sadness on atheism.
The proof, the evidence, the aftermath of what happened is still there, at plain sight,, why can’t I believe in it’s reality??
Trauma is not just about the abuse from my “"caregiver”“ but also about The Hive as a whole and how they forced me to be a mule,, in suburban Wales,, yup that makes sense. It’s also about how they murdered my best friend and let her body out there in every single passerbys sight,, without an ounce of respect, there just to be found by me. It’s also about how they would use me for sex, I mean, I got drugs in exchange but still. I was 15. It’s also about how they let me share the attic with a random heroin addict and about how I had to move his corpse to the side since he died in my bed, thanks Ewan.
That shite ain’t even half of it and it’s already so morbid. So fake yet so lucid.
I’m changing now but I wish change had come sooner. I wish Tom didnae send a death threat to that couple that tried to adopt me, I wish I knew drugs are bad, I wish I was given kisses goodnight, I wish I had finished grade school, I wish my biological mother didnae have so much power over my money, I wish Steve was alive as well as rooks and Amy and Sterling and Oliver and even Ewan,,,
Malcolm I’m so fucking sorry for missing your wedding. I’m sorry that after knowing you as a deadbeat addict that taught me how to be a decent person no matter the environment, that after all the pain we went through to find your sister and getting you clean,, I still couldnae go to your wedding. To your most special day. I genuinely hope you are happy now, you deserve to be happy, may you always be content.
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i knew what i had to do to get rid of this sadness, drugs
After i told Sergio he uhhhh "ruined" me by "forcing" a sex change on me, yeahh a year later, 2 weeks ago, after talking to Mat i went to his flat, he lived w his auntie and his maw and i rang the bell, i didnae want to apologize, i just needed valium in my fave shade of blue. his maw opened up "oh are u one of Sergios friends? he disnae live here anymore"
what the fuck, "oh its fine i just think i left my phone charger here the other day, do u mind if i go check?" ??????????? a phone charger? really Di? REALLY? i kno old ladies are stupid but a fucking phone charger?? She let u in anyways, what a stupid old dumb fuck.
I went up to his room, it was almost empty, he in fact didnae live there. he kept the pills on a camera briefcase kidn of thing, and it was there, in the closet. how could i not cry. only it wasnae filled w valium blue but some pink and some white stuff. took the pink one expecting for it to be benadryl, love that DPH and justt popped em all in and left his flat, not before the maw gave me his new address "just in case" sure, lady. i closed the front door and started rushing to the subway station, idk why i always run when i have to take the tube, shuffling through the crowd i bumped into him. what are the fucking odds he was on his way to visit his maw. he looked at me and recognized me and i told him to watch where he was walking now i just had to wait for them pills to take effect,
i didnt see shadow people or spiders or anything, i think i took a lot of tic tacs, pink ones. i dont know what that stuff was, i didnae kno where to get drugs but clubs
i hate clubbing i hate raves, i hate electronic music but a wee bit of ectasy,,, just to u kno,, it sounded like a good idea and i snuck in between the neon lights and drunk teens, got my fix, panicked in the bathroom, kissed a stranger woke up in my flat two days later. i dont even wanna know, i looked at the mirror, i stared back at me, i looked like shit, w candy stuck on my hair and drool on my cheek, my underwear was intact, ive been worse,, so much worse. the phone rang, i didnae kno we had a landline again. i was alone. my flat is never empty. i picked up and a voice said "uhhh is diana there?? hello????" i didnae recognize her voice, i didnae kno who she was "yeah, its me"
her name is Pam, she found my mobile at the bathroom from the club, she called back the last number that tried to contact me, she wanted to meet up so she could give it to me, we met up for coffee. she is a serial raver, she lives under ectasy and neon colors, she is also a literal angel that returns phones and buys disgraced girls coffee. she poked around on my phone and got my name from my fb profile, she also stumbled into all of my nudes and asked what i did for a living. she is so polite. i am a prostitute darling.
Pam, Pamela, she feels like an old friend i felt like i could talk to her abt anything, and i p much did, i puked all over her with my mighty emotional bulimia.
"u kno what i do when im sad?" she asked "I smoke a blunt hehe but shh"
she is my new best friend, after the coffee she took me to her flat and rolled one up for me and i just couldnae stop vomiting all of my bulimia all of my emotions all on her. until i got a text "u free tonite?" it was a client, i explained pam, im a prostitute, a hooker and a call girl. i hadnt done many sex work recently but eh what the fuck, not like i had more important shite to do like idk attend a wedding
keep in mind that fucking wedding is what brought me here
that whole malcolm rambling wasnae for nothing.
the reason why i almost relapse, is i cannae put my trauma in order
the story is not over yet, this is just jan 4th through 6th? maybe, i say bye to my new bestie, i say hi to my client.
I was still high from the hachis and all and i think i didnae notice how rough he was being, he payed me and all so i couldnt complain much, i brought this upon myself. went back to my flat and showering, it stung ike a motherfucker, i looked at the back/side of my upper arm and it was just,,, live muscle, i dont know how hard that bastard clung on to me but this looked animal, it looked terrifying, it was one of those times where it disnae hurt until you se it, until it gets an audience. hopped out of the shower and looked at myself still wet and naked,, it wasnt only my arms but a part of my neck and my left thigh as well. imanaged to get dressed up, my thigh hurt so much in that moment i was limping, limping all my way to the pharmacy. u kno when u lose so much blood ur brain becomes irrational? i thought i just needed a couple of bandages but it turns out i needed stitches and surgery for my plastic cunt. the pharmacy lady wanted to call an ambulance, the ER is literally blocks away, i told her i could walk it
and i did?????????? i, had raw meat showing through my arms and thigh and neck and i still managed to limp all the way to the ER
that makes sense
i dont know how much of this really happened, i dont know how much im making up, i wish i was reliable but soemtimes i go back to my memories and they seem so fucked up, not blurry just "you couldnaeve limped all the way to the ER" kind of fucked up
they stitched me up, they asked who attacked me, they told me i should go to the police, they told me i could confess and theyd protect me
what are they talking about?? this is just Hooker Goes Wrong Vol. 1
i didnae testify against him cause he paid me
he did rip my cunt too, tht was just disrespectful...
when they do shite to ur fake vagina they dont open u up, not many people kno this but what they do is they fill ur belly with air and put some tools inside you through a mini hole, no scar, it all goes up ur belly button and thats all, it may or may not get swollen but u can just put ice packs on there to soothe the pain. i kno this cause Sergio would put the ice on me, he would tke care of me and kiss my forehead and wee would hold hands. and the nurses told me abt 4 days later "ure all healed up, u can leave now, would you like for uss to call someone to pick u up?" i thought Sergio but honestly fuck him, i thought Pam but we just met, i tought my flatmates but the humiliation is not worth it, i tought sergio, i gave the nurse the paper with his address and phone..
I wanted to die, i love him but i didnae want to see him, he validated me, he was my audience, he made me feel human, he made me feel real. and i was just a bitch
He didnae look angry or dissapointed he just held me and said that he missed me, he asked what happened, i just said i was sorry, i wouldnae stop apologized
i am sorry for treating him like just an audience, like a no one that just exists at my expense to make me real. he held me for the longest time, i let him embrace me. i wasnt just a hug, it was a promise to protect.
I am writing this from my flat, still wearing one of his hoodies, he told me i could stay with him as long as i wanted and thats what im going to do, i stayed for a week already but i missed my flat and now i miss him
maybe it was okay that i missed the wedding, maybe it was okay wyatt signed out rabbit, maybe it was okay that i went clubbing, maybe it was okay i got attacked by that client, idk, ill never know for sure all i kno is, at least for now is im okay and thats all that matters